The 42 undersigned organizations, including over a dozen ABC members, are working to clean California’s air and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and want to work collaboratively with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to preserve funding for low NOx trucks in the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP) in the 2019-2020 Fiscal Year Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation Investments. We STRONGLY OPPOSE any recommendation to defund low NOx (near zero) heavy-duty vehicles under HVIP as such an action would circumvent state statute, the legislative intent behind said state statute and side-step CARB’s own adopted policies that attempt to mitigate heavy-duty truck pollution to protect public health. More >>
